Stephen Donnelly refused to answer whether he thought the case of a person aged 70 on a trolley for 57 hours was “borderline elder abuse”. louiseburne_
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has insisted that this winter’s trolley crisis is different from previous ones - and argued that what we are seeing now “doesn’t happen every year”.
Trolley numbers usually peak in the first week of the new year following the return of services after the Christmas break. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation reported that this number had dropped to 535 on Friday morning. Minister Donnelly said that the number of people on trolleys has nearly halved over the last number of days.
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